Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-11-04
The Muhlenberg Family.

Df. Henry Melch0ir MuhlenOerg
was married to Anna Mary Weiser.
daughter of Conrad Weiser, and had
large family. The most distin-
guished of his sons were the follow
ing:
John Peter Gabriel, the eldest,
Frederick Augustus Conrad, the Sec
ond, and Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muh-
lenberg, the third son, were ali sent
to Halle. in Germany, at the ages
respectively Of l6, IA and 10 years,
where two were prepared for the
ministry, and returned to America,
The eldest served in a drug store tor
two years at Luebeck, then became
private secretary to British Colo
mel, by whom be Vas restored to his
father, and studied for the ministry
under Provost Wrangle in America.
" bile pastor of the Lutheran church
at Woodstock, Va, Peter Mullen
berg, actuated by patriotic motives,
accepted a Colonel's commission in
the Eight Virginia Regiment, and
entered the army of the Revolution,
became Major General, and served
from the beginning to the close of the
war He was elected Vice President
of the Supreme Executive Council of
Pennsylvania, of which Benjamin
Franklin was President, Vice Presi-
dent of the Society of Cincinnati,
United States Senator under the new
constitution, and was finally appoint
ed Collector of the Port of Philadel-
phia by President Jefferson.
Frederick Augustus Conrad Muh.
lenberg. after assisting his father in
Philadelphia, and serving as pastor
of Christ's church. New York, under
the pressure of the times. and the po-
litical exigencies of the Revolution,
yielded to the solicitations of his fell
low citizens to represent them in the
legislature Of Pennsylvania, over
which he presided, was president of
the Board of Ceusors, chosen a dele
gate aud president OF the convention
that ratified the Constitution of the
United States, and subsequently ell.
ected to the House of Representa-
yes, and presided of the First and
Third Congresses under the Consti-
tuition.
Gotthilf Henry Ernest Mullen.
berg after assisting his father and
serving congregations in Philadel-
phia and New Jersey, was called to
Torooo+ar opl labnrad 40 paStcr Of
Trinity Lutheran church for thirty
FIVE years, having also been the first
president of Franklin College. He
had q taste for the natural sciences,
and became distinguished as a bota-
mist, being called the Linn@us of
America. He had two sons, f. A.
Muhlenberg, D. d LII. D., of the
University of Pennsy lvania, and the
Hon. Henry A. Mublen berg, men,
Der of Congress, and Minister to Aus
tria, and the father of Dr. H. III.
Muhlenberg, and the Ii. A. Mullen
berg, Jr
Two of the most prominent chill
dren of Gen. Peter Muhenberg were
Major Peter Muhlenberg, who was q
Lieutenant in the U S. Navy and as
such participated in the fight on
Lake Erie, subsequently entered the
U. S. Army, was aid to Gen. Pike
in the Canada campaign, blown up
there into the air by the explosion of
a powder magazine, served under
Gen Jackson at New Orleans and
the Florida war, and ended his days,
in 1874, as Paymaater in the United
States Army; and Francis Swaine
Muhlenberg, ESQ. who represented
one of the Congressional Districts of
Ohio in the national Congress.
DR.. William Augustus Mublen-
berg. the author of II would not live
Away" founder of St. Luke's Hospi-
tai, St Johnland, and Grace Episco-
pal church, New York, was grand
son of the Patriarch, his father hay
ing been Henry William.
The only living grandson of Gem
erGl Peter Muhlenberg, is Major
Frank P Muhienberg, of Galesburg,
Michigan, who served with distipc-
tion in the late war with Gems Grant
and Sherman in the army of the Ten
nessee; a member of the Society of
Cincinnati, and the Loyal Legion
Observer.